They pretty generally agree that even a casual indulgence in beverages is not indicated for those who seek to reduce.

I am sure they are right.

But as I remarked just now, what can you do when you are encompassed about by the bottle-toting, sop-it-up-behind-the-door custom which has sprung up since Prohibition was slipped over on us by the Anti-Saloon League?
I confess that I have not the strength of character to swim, almost alone, against the social current.

So I partake of the occasional snort and to that extent stand a self-admitted apologist for an offense which no true reductionist should commit.
But I claim that otherwise--that in so far as the solid foodstuffs are concerned--I have, for my own individual case, exactly the right idea about it..